2019-20 Men's Basketball Roster
Jersey Number 5
Payten Ricks
- Position:
- Guard
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 190
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Wichita, Kan.
- High School:
- Maize South HS
Honors
- All-Southland honorable mention as a junior
- Southland All-Tournament team as a junior
- Southland Preseason first team all-conference as a senior
- Points: 23 (at Denver 11/15/18)
- Rebounds: 7 (at Lipscomb 12/17/17)
- Assists: 6 (at McNeese 1/9/19)
- Steals: 7 [1st in ACU history] (vs. Campbell 12/4/18)
- Blocks: 1 (at Denver 1/15/18, vs. Sam Houston State 12/30/17)
- Started all 34 games for the Wildcats
- Was the third leading scorer for ACU, averaging 11.7 ppg
- Shot 42 percent from the field and 40 percent from three-point range
- Scored in double digits in 20 games, surpassing the 20-point mark in three
- Dished out a career-high six assists at McNeese
- Named to the All-Tournament Team at the Southland Conference Tournament
- Played in 26 games, making 17 starts
- Averaged 6.6 points, 1.8 rebounds, 1.7 assists, and 0.8 steals per game
- Tallied nine double-digit scoring games including a career-high 19 at Lipscomb on Dec. 17
- Hauled in a career-best 7 rebounds in the same game against Lipscomb
- Recorded his lone block against Sam Houston State
- Dished out a career-high four assists twice against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Sam Houston State.
- Played in 28 games missing only one for the Wildcats starting five
- Ricks averaged 3.5 points, 1.0 rebounds, 1.2 assists, and 0.7 steals in 376 minutes
- Had a career-high 15 points and five assists against Stephen F. Austin
- Recorded three steals against Northern New Mexico (12/10)
- Shot 71.1% from the free throw line.
- As a senior in 2015-16, Ricks averaged 27.9 points, 4.2 assists and 2.6 rebounds per game in 22 games for Maize South HS
- Ricks was a top-100 player in Kansas
- He was a Sports in Kansas second team All-Classes all-state selection and first team Class 5A all-state
- As a junior in 2014-15, Ricks helped lead his team to a 22-2 record and a second-place finish at the state tournament
- Ricks averaged 31.5 minutes per game and shot 47 percent from the field, including 31 percent from 3-point range
- As a junior he was a first team all-state selection at guard and was voted to the all-state tournament team
- As a sophomore he was a second team all-state pick, and he was an honorable mention all-state selection as a freshman.
- Full name is Payten Michael Ricks
- Born 08 April 1998
- Son of David and Melanie Ricks
- 2016 graduate of Maize South High School
- Played for head coach Kip Schultz at Maize South High School.
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